CA Surround Sound, liking this even more this time with the fullness and the rich resiny hops that have a lemon zest nuance. Some vanilla and tasty tropical fruit. Only a little peppery, and big DIPA palate with alcohol slightly warm as expected and suitable dry to balance the hefty malt bill. Pretty amazing.

Belgian wrote:CA Surround Sound, liking this even more this time with the fullness and the rich resiny hops that have a lemon zest nuance. Some vanilla and tasty tropical fruit. Only a little peppery, and big DIPA palate with alcohol slightly warm as expected and suitable dry to balance the hefty malt bill. Pretty amazing.

duckdown wrote:Heads up there’s defective batch of Ransack The Universe going around. Bunch of guys who I chat with every day bought the beer and it’s got tons of chunky separated parts in the pour.

LCBO is aware of the problem though and giving gift card receipts no questions asked

The last four cans I’ve had of Ransack have been chunky. Two this week, and two probably a month ago....they tasted perfectly fine to me, but didn’t look great. I’m not one to completely write off a beer or brewery, because of some “chunky” beer like some other have been. Goes down just the same.

duckdown wrote:Heads up there’s defective batch of Ransack The Universe going around. Bunch of guys who I chat with every day bought the beer and it’s got tons of chunky separated parts in the pour.

LCBO is aware of the problem though and giving gift card receipts no questions asked

The last four cans I’ve had of Ransack have been chunky. Two this week, and two probably a month ago....they tasted perfectly fine to me, but didn’t look great. I’m not one to completely write off a beer or brewery, because of some “chunky” beer like some other have been. Goes down just the same.

I like the beer too, but the pics looked gnarly.. hopefully gets resolved as LCBO is giving out refunds for it and allowing people to keep the beer

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duckdown wrote:Heads up there’s defective batch of Ransack The Universe going around. Bunch of guys who I chat with every day bought the beer and it’s got tons of chunky separated parts in the pour.

LCBO is aware of the problem though and giving gift card receipts no questions asked

The last four cans I’ve had of Ransack have been chunky. Two this week, and two probably a month ago....they tasted perfectly fine to me, but didn’t look great. I’m not one to completely write off a beer or brewery, because of some “chunky” beer like some other have been. Goes down just the same.

I like the beer too, but the pics looked gnarly.. hopefully gets resolved as LCBO is giving out refunds for it and allowing people to keep the beer

Yeah, they’ve Definately not been pretty to look at. The four cans I’ve bought had all been from Zehrs, didn’t realize it was such a widespread thing.

I remeber when Sparklepuff was having the chunks as well, I got one out of 3 cans I drank that was chunky. Again, didn’t look great but tasted just fine.

Chunks in fresh beer are generally (I say generally because there are always edge cases) no big deal and cosmetic in nature. Flavorless proteins suspended in the beer or excess yeast in suspension that fit whatever reason didn't crash out when it should. Probably a sign of carelessness on the part of the brewery and should technically be considered a flaw if it's not intentional like it would be in a hazy beer, but it's largely cosmetic.

In old, especially hoppy, beers it can be a sign that the beer is way past prime. These will look more flakey than fresh beer with chunks. This is still just proteins falling out of suspension, but it's a sign of a beer that's past prime. This isn't really a sign of a mistake on the brewer's part, it's just old.

There also a chance of floaties in infected beer, but you won't need tips to know that beer is off. It will smell and taste awful.